Mondo Hollywood
Hollywood laid bare!
Movie - 120mins
Long considered a cult classic, "Mondo Hollywood" captures the underside of Hollywood by documenting a moment in time (1965-67), when an inquisitive trust in the unknown was paramount, hope for the future was tangible and life was worth living on the fringe. An interior monologue narrative approach is used throughout the film, where each principal person shown not only decided on what they wanted to be filmed doing, but also narrated their own scenes. The film opens with Gypsy Boots (the original hippie vegan - desert hopping blender salesman), and stripper Jennie Lee, working out 'Watusi-style' beneath the 'Hollywood' sign -- leading into the 'sustainable community' insight of Lewis Beach Marvin III, the S&H Green Stamp heir, who lived in a $10 a month garage while owning a mountain retreat in Malibu.
Cast:
Antony
Armstrong-Jones
Lewis
Beach
Jayne
Mansfield
Alfred
Hitchcock
Jennie
Lee
Vito
Paulekas
Carl
Franzoni
Gypsy
Boots
Ram
Dass
Frank
Zappa
Bobby
Beausoleil
Margaretta
Ramsey
Dale
Davis
Theodore
Charach
Valerie
Porter
Jay
Sebring
Carazini
Rudi
Gernreich
Rodney
Bingenheimer
Jimmy
Carl
Carol
Cole
Coleman
Francis
Antony
Armstrong-Jones
Lewis
Beach
Jayne
Mansfield
Alfred
Hitchcock
Jennie
Lee
Vito
Paulekas
Carl
Franzoni
Gypsy
Boots
Ram
Dass
Frank
Zappa